What Did You Do Philatelically: Today Or Recently?

Trying to put together my 'want lists' for the April Northeast show. Going for some FDC's & Mint stationary pieces. First thing is to 'trash' all my little notes & consolidate. (Not an as easy task as I thought)

Geoff- no one has mentioned it yet but I will (especially as a devoted BC collector)- that's a beautiful complete page of high-quality Seychelles stamps. Great job!

Shermae - thank you. I shan't be eating for a week, of course! I've reverted to BC a little because much of the remaining French stuff is out of reach for me.

A very nice page Geoff

I always avoided the KE7 stamps because they were too expensive and that there are generally two different colour schemes for many colonies. From memory it had something to do with the UPU.

That said I'm not a big collector of QV stamps either. Just a couple of countries, GB and New South Wales principally.

The Seychelles was just about doable for me, helped by its late start as an issuing entity. But British Guiana …

Great looking page Geoff!
Regards
DavidR

todays stamps were from belgium, taking them from a stockbook and putting them into five safe hingeless albums ranging from years 1950 to 1990. enjoyable and relaxing,

Went to a local show today, came home with a bunch of stuff, mostly Australia, Norfolk Island and a few others. Mostly just sat down at tables and pulled a country and bought everything they had that I needed.

I watch football once a year. My annual tradition is to watch the Superbowl and soak stamps from the last 12 months of mail. One thing that I enjoyed seeing was being reminded of the nice stamps the APS Stamp Store used to use on their shipments (top, from March 2023). For the last 6 months or so, they have been using meters instead of real stamps (bottom, from February 2024).

Went to the MSDA Stamp Show in Louisville, Kentucky this past weekend. Of course, I spent way too much and will have to answer to my CFO wife

Shout out to Fox River Stamps, Tiger Collectibles, First Century Stamps and KS Philatelics. You guys have some great stock and were all very professional.

After a laborious work of collecting data and images, comparing opinions and designing pages, I finished putting together the Belgian Buzin Birds series.

todays stamps were of germany years ranging from 1990 to 2000. put in a german collecta album, in clear mounts , now about two thirds full, still sorting for the rest.

That's why you have a wife that collects too. Mine outspends me all the time!

Put some early Azerbaijan issues in the album, after studying the information in this forum for counterfeits. Mine all appear to be genuine, but I am keeping the duplicates for further study if I get more information later. Then started taking some Argentine issues out of an ancient Coronet Deluxe album and checking them for perfs and watermarks during identification. Laborious, but my early Argentina collection is slowly growing!

I'm pleased to say I've finished the C Post Offices for my book, one year & 12 days after starting the project.

118 pages & 33,700 words thus far.

36 POs down, 149 to go